[Update] John Lehner has sent a series of pictures of a remarkable association copy of The Love-Story of Ursula Wolcott in his private collection. It was the copy presented by the publisher to Ethel Reed and bears this inscription on a flyleaf: “Miss Ethel Reed | with the compliments | of Lamson, Wolffe, & Co | 6, Beacon Street | Boston | December 11th 1895.” On the half-title is this note in Ethel Reed’s hand: “This being the first copy to come from the press.”

Finally, tipped into the book is this letter from Charles Knowles Bolton:

11 October 1895

Dear Miss Reed,

I went into Lamson’s today and saw Ursula at the spinning wheel. A copy stands before me and a lovelier vision I never saw. It catches the spirit both of the old time & the old illustrations as I never dreamed you would be able to do. It is so simple, so well drawn & so refined that I can hardly say enough in praise of it. Every detail seems the result of conscientious care & thought. The pictures are the best evidence of your future that I have ever seen.